Added the ability to insert an array of ['column' => 'value'] pairs

[Raistlfiren]

Lazy programmer - added a way to do an insert based upon column/value pairs similar to update($pairs). With the insert statement you can now do

$pairs = ['column' => 'value'];

$db->insert([], $pairs)->into('news');

[Loic-Rameau]

It's cool 👍 .

But you should do :

$pairs = ['column'=>'value'];
$db->insert($pairs)->into('yeay');

And change the constructor of InsertStatement to either do the actual stuff or call your custom insertFromArray function if the index of the array is not a number.

[Raistlfiren]

The problem with doing that is breaking backwards compatibility with the project. The constructor of InsertStatement is looking for an array of columns by default, and I am passing it an array of columns => values. I could check the array key to see if it is a string or integer to automatically call a custom function(I think this is a bad idea.) or have a second argument with the constructor that accepts a function name to call. So InsertStatement would be take in as the constructor Database $dbh, array $columns, $functionName = ''. Then $columns would need to be changed to $pairs or something more general then.

[FaaPz]

Thanks for proposing @Raistlfiren! Just released v1.9.9 (2c3cf65) with an implementation of your idea without breaking backwards compatibility. 😉